PlainAttorney Register file of Sep 29, 2026 · NY Office of Court Administration, via data.ny.gov

Craig Rodney Nethercott

On the New York attorney register since 1996 · office in London, United Kingdom

PlainAttorney’s reading of the public register file, not a court record.

Registration No.
2783884
Admitted
1996 · First Department
Status
Currently registered
Next registration
May 2028

Craig Rodney Nethercott is currently registered on the New York attorney register file of Sep 29, 2026. Admitted in 1996 in the First Department, with an office in London, United Kingdom; next registration due May 2028. Since Jul 3, 2026 it has moved only through the routine two-year cycle.

What this status means on the register

On the register, “Currently registered” means the attorney has filed the biennial registration the court system requires; the next one is due in the month shown. How many hold this status.

  1. Due to re‑register to Currently registered the routine two-year cycle: the registration window closed with a filing
  2. Due to re‑register unchanged
  3. Due to re‑register the first file we hold

We show the 3 register files of the last twelve months (Jul 3, 2026, Aug 6, 2026, Sep 29, 2026). A change of standing between them is struck through in red; the routine birthday cycle is not.

Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026; the Jul 3, 2026 and Aug 6, 2026 files for the history.

Others who list this employer on the register

The register gives this attorney’s employer as “Clifford Chance”. We count that spelling with Clifford Chance US LLP, the name most registrants give for the firm now; the register does not say where the attorney works today.

496 other attorneys list Clifford Chance US LLP or one of its other names as their employer on the register. The 5 whose admission is closest to 1996, earliest first:

AttorneyAdmittedStatus
Andrew Jervis Coats1995Currently registered
Jeffrey D. Berman1996Currently registered
Vipul Natwarlal Nishawala1996Currently registered
Jeff Edward Butler1997Currently registered
Douglas Ernest Deutsch1997Currently registered

All 497 registrations that list Clifford Chance US LLP

Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026; employer spellings merged (methodology).

Where this record sits on the register

The register gives the school as “UCD and QUB”.

Office in London, United Kingdom
3,092living registrants give an office there (outside the U.S.)

Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026; living registrants only.

How to confirm it officially

The register is published by the court system; PlainAttorney shows it as released. For a statement of an attorney’s standing, contact the Attorney Registration Unit of the NY Office of Court Administration (nycourts.gov/attorneys), or ask the Appellate Division in the attorney’s department. The register places the office outside New York, so a complaint would go to the grievance committee of the First Department, which admitted this attorney (22 NYCRR 1240.7(a)(2)).

This page reads the register file of Sep 29, 2026; the court system publishes the file every few weeks, so its own search can be newer. The register shows only the current value: a suspension that ended before the files we hold, or discipline short of suspension such as a censure, leaves no trace here. Appellate Division decisions on attorney discipline are published in the New York Official Reports, online through the court system’s Law Reporting Bureau.

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